Ads redirecting on mobile
#526
Administrator
Re: Ads redirecting on mobile
We were good for a while there, weren't we? I'll report these
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#532
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Re: Ads redirecting on mobile
Several ads today appear to be running cryptocurrency miners or something that caused my CPU cores to spike really huge.
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#536
Administrator
Re: Ads redirecting on mobile
Later yesterday, we put a 3rd party blocker on all sites in our division and it should stop redirect completely. As for high-memory regular ads, we are currently working on those.
#537
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Re: Ads redirecting on mobile
I was able to use Chrome Task Manager to identify one of the offending tabs (the other 3 had crashed already). I took a screenshot. As you can see, the ads didn't even load properly in the tab. They're just sucking down CPU and RAM.
#539
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Ads redirecting on mobile
The thread title only refers to mobile options, but for the last few days the site has been redirecting my browser to one of those "you have a virus" pages that have audio and will not let you close them.
#540
Administrator
Re: Ads redirecting on mobile
Thanks guys, I'll report all these ads to our team. The cryptocurrency ones are particularly disturbing. Bang, thanks for the screenshot. b2net and mickey, can you post some of what you're seeing? b2net, I know it's hard to showthat you can't scroll past something, since that requires video, but maybe if it's disturbing text/content? Are you both browsing in the US/through US IPs?
#541
Re: Ads redirecting on mobile
Thanks guys, I'll report all these ads to our team. The cryptocurrency ones are particularly disturbing. Bang, thanks for the screenshot. b2net and mickey, can you post some of what you're seeing? b2net, I know it's hard to showthat you can't scroll past something, since that requires video, but maybe if it's disturbing text/content? Are you both browsing in the US/through US IPs?
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#543
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Re: Ads redirecting on mobile
I was ads-redirected several times last year November. I took some time out hoping this annoying issue got fixed. So far so good.
#545
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Re: Ads redirecting on mobile
Gah! It was a good three months. I've spoken to our ads manager, and while we can't stop these completely, it shouldn't be a recurring problem, as it was.
#546
Re: Ads redirecting on mobile
It has only happened to me twice in 3 months. When it happened this second time, I figured I'd post just in case there is a way these are sneaking in again.
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Re: Ads redirecting on mobile
Getting this crap regularly today. Super annoying. Even clicking Cancel redirects to the shitty website.
Is it because I made fun of the anti-Handbrake ad?
Is it because I made fun of the anti-Handbrake ad?
#550
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Re: Ads redirecting on mobile
Hi Dan, definitely shouldn't be happening since we installed some 3rd-party redirect-blocking software, but unfortunately some can slip through. I will alert tech/ads.